pinfold
Example Sentences
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It meant no more than inconveniently crowded; thus Milton: “Confined and pestered in this pinfold here”.
From English Past and Present by Abram Smythe Palmer
Another official surname especially connected with country life is Pinder, also found as Pinner, Pender, Penner, Ponder and Poynder, the man in charge of the pound or pinfold; cf.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
With shrilling bleat for comfort hie To every pinfold, humankind; Ah, there the fostering teat is dry, The stranger mother proves unkind.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
They hunted, an' they hollo'd, an' the next thing they did find Was a bull-calf in a pinfold, an' that too they left behind.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 September 23, 1893 by Various
This line is attributive to ‘men.’ pestered ... pinfold, crowded together in this cramped space, the Earth.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
